Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-03-02
ANXIOUS AUSTRALIA.
Vigorous Proposal for Complete Indepen-
dence.


The following from O recent issue OF
the Sidney Bulletin, one of the lead.
Ing papers Of Australia, clearly indI.
Gales that the people Of that country
are growing more and more Restless
under English rule, and are willing to
embrace the first opportunity to rid
themselves Of IL:
"Englsnd's difficulty will be Aus
trslia's opportunity, and the day OF
England's disaster will be the one on
which Australia will cut the painter
and sever connection with the empire.
The assertion may seem cowardly and
brutal, but IL 10 true, and In cutting
adrift from the mother country We will
only treat her as she would treat US
under like conditions. Britain's in
terest In Australia is not guided by
those considerations OF kindred or Of.
lection which she so sedulously i'm.
presses upon US; it ia a fiuctuating
quality varying from 81 to 10 per cent.
and the average Is nearer TO 10 than 81.
IL England ever exerts herself In our
defense II will be tor the financial rea-
son that causes her to defend Egypt
to-day, and as the gratitude we would
owe her would be charged In the bill,
the prospective obligation is not sufll-
cient to cement what are fondly called
1.-The bonds of brotherhood, ~ or to in
duce us TO tie ourselves forever to de-
cayiDg European monarchy. No
doubt the secession OF these colonies
would be violently opposed by Eng
lish-born TesideDts-Of whom there
are still many In this country-but
when the day Of severance comes the
Englishman must either submit To
the wishes Of his adopted country or
he must 70.
"The educated struggling colonisl
has long oulived any sympathy with
imperial pomp or imperial traditions
and he will not submit to be taught
the virtues OF retogressioD by strangers
or to be imbued with English ideas by
English who have left their native
country because the system which
they advocate has made IL a place that
is no longer good enough for them to
live in. When some flatulent mayor
or other In search Of notoriety discour.
ses to US OF glory and jubilee, anC
loyalty II Is the glory of England NOT
that Of Australia TO which he alludes
and we decline TO believe that Provi.
dence created this country for the ex.
press purpose of making IL the satellite
ofa-twenty-thousand mile-away-island d
hardly one twenty.hfrb its size.
Federated Australia can defend IT,
self against the world. What II wants
Ia liberty 10 shape it, own policy and
thus escape the bideous blunders by
which Britain has accumulated a
mountain of us"less debt; the things II
does tot want are German royal
family, n crowd m bou l-f-out Eng
l.h politicians sent here because
their usefulness IL over 10 heir
own country; and rush of titl.s by
which these gruv.llers are To be found
even in The most Democratic com.
munities are bought for imperial ser.
vice and set up a- liv.ried images for
the worship Of the nation. Aud the
great programme Of the Australian
democracy will yet be realized. Even
the establishment lsnnounced last
week 10y cablpgram) of n new order oI
merit for which coloDis,s will be eli
giible' cannot delay the fall of i'm
peralism in Aus tralia even for day" !"